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difficulties in working of arrangements to be now made and may pretend, if no agreement for modification is reached, that clauses must be held to have lapsed. Wording should be sufficiently explicit to exclude latter possibility.

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4. My telegram No.55 contains draft of article in treaty which should replace paragraph (1) of the Protocol. Gist of paragraph (2) of the Protocol will be incorporated in the ratification clause so that the Drafts of preamble and whole Protocol now disappears.

ratification clause and instructions with regard to

personal status will be telegraphed as soon as

possible.

Repeated to Peking No. 112.